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Oldham Pride bosses claim GMP have banned rainbow Pride police car at event due to 'hate crime' concerns

"Decisions like this seem counterintuitive and to drag policing backwards into its hard-line, unpassionate past'

Manchester Evening News

Belief that children being sexually exploited were 'troublesome' lay at the heart of authorities failure to protect them, leaders admit

The acknowledgement over attitudes towards victims of abuse was made at a press conference on Monday announcing the findings of a damning review into child sexual explotiation (CSE) in Oldham.

Manchester Evening News

The Mancunian Way: 'No excuses' for failure to protect sexually exploited children in Oldham

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Oldham grooming gangs’ victims receive apologies over authorities’ failures

A report found police and the local council failed to protect some youngsters from sexual exploitation.

The Independent UK

The Northern Agenda: North's latest grooming bombshell

Oldham follows in the footsteps of Rotherham, Rochdale and Keighley

Manchester Evening News

‘Serious failings’ left children exposed to abuse in Oldham, finds damning review

Report singles out failings by police and council and suggests senior officials may have misled MPs

The Guardian - UK

GMP chief welcomes plans to combat racism - after report finds black people living in region nearly six times more likely to be stopped and searched

The Police Race Action plan has been designed to transform the police into an 'institutionally anti-racist organisation'

Manchester Evening News

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Greater Manchester 'has 176 gangs' - almost a quarter have access to guns

A new crime-busting strategy has been launched by Greater Manchester Police to tackle criminal gangs

Manchester Evening News

The Saipan dice roll - the day Roy Keane headed home and Ireland went to the World Cup

What began as a trip that felt like a lottery win quickly descended into a nightmare, and not just for the two main protagonists in Ireland's civil war, Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy

Irish Mirror

Greater Manchester police ‘failed children in the past’, says chief constable

Stephen Watson says force had lacked professional curiosity when it came to young victims of grooming gangs

The Guardian - UK

Why GMP's troubled iOPS computer system could stay in place for another 18 months

"Unfortunately with these things you can't just switch it off and plug something new in"

Manchester Evening News

Greater Manchester Police chief admits force 'were borderline incompetent over Rochdale grooming gangs'

Stephen Watson acknowledged that his predecessors had "failed" children in the past

Manchester Evening News

Rochdale victim: ‘I was groomed at 14, then the courts came for my children’

Her evidence helped put abusers behind bars, yet ‘Amber’ was vilified by the authorities and says her torment will never end

The Guardian - UK

Andy Burnham issues statement after GMP apologise to three Rochdale grooming gang victims

"There is no doubt that GMP did fail victims and survivors"

Manchester Evening News

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The Independent UK

Women sexually abused by Rochdale grooming gangs win ‘historic victory’ as police apologise for failings

‘I don’t know if I believe that Greater Manchester Police have really changed their ways as they say they have, but I’m happy that they’ve taken into account their failings,’ says victim

The Guardian - UK

GMP police chief apologises to Rochdale grooming gang victims

Chief constable Stephen Watson said the three women, who have received ‘substantial’ damages, were let down

The Independent UK

Victims of Rochdale grooming gangs win apology and damages from police

Their lawyers claimed Greater Manchester Police breached their human rights by not doing more to protect them.

Manchester Evening News

Greater Manchester faces new drugs crisis as patients living in agony wait years for surgery, doctors warn

'It's a new addiction and it has become a crutch for a lot of people to get through their lives'

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Liverpool Echo

Police 'willing to step in' to help at Manchester Airport - but won't handle baggage

The airport has been dogged by chaotic scenes over the past few weeks

Manchester Evening News

GMP's improving 'basics', policing minister says, but recognises there's more work to do

Kit Malthouse was speaking from a cannabis farm in Blackley

Manchester Evening News

GMP 'willing to step in to do whatever we can' to solve Manchester Airport woes - but not baggage handling

Chief Constable Stephen Watson ruled out officers ‘doing baggage handling type tasks’, though

Manchester Evening News

BREAKING: Key part of GMP's troubled iOPS computer system FINALLY set to be scrapped

The force accepted it wasn't working properly a year ago - Chief Constable Stephen Watson confirmed only this morning it would be replaced rather than fixed

Manchester Evening News

GMP chief vows to ramp up controversial stop and search in battle against knife crime

"It is absolutely blindlingly obvious in Greater Manchester we just have not been conducting stop and searches in anything like the volume commensurate with a force our size."

Manchester Evening News

Greater Manchester's police chief has no plans to apply for top job at The Met...yet

Stephen Watson QPM says it would be “dishonourable” and "quite the wrong time" to leave GMP - though he says it would be disingenuous to suggest he has no interest in the role at The Met

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